Detroit like most other cities during the pandemic saw a significant rise in crime.
City officials say that’s in large part because the court system in essence shut down allowing many potentially violent offenders back on the street while awaiting trial.
Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan says more than four-thousand violent crime cases were put on the back burner after Covid erupted.
“When you had four thousand backlogged…every defense attorney was saying to their client ‘Don’t take a plea – they’re not gonna get to you for two years.’ And the problem snowballed.”
The city says cooperation between the cops and the courts has led to an 18 percent drop in homicides between now and last year…with car jackings only a third the number they were a year ago.